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And here's what Dayton said about John Sherman paying Minor Leaguers: "The Minor League players, the players you never know about, the players that never get out of rookie ball, those players have as much to do about the growth of the game than as any 10-year or 15-year veteran."
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Woah now, Dayton - lets slow down a tick.
The "guys that never make it out of rookie ball" are fungible as hell. They exist as bit players in someone else's story and if you lose them, you'll have a loooooong line of UDFA's that will gladly step in for another season or two in the sun instead of getting a real job.
I understand benevolence but lets not be hagiographers for the Tyler Carvalho's of the world. Ashe Russell has as much to do with the growth of baseball as Mike Trout? Uh...no. No he does not.